Garvin Great in Post-Season

by Eric Jones

Maybe it was a good thing that Grayson Garvin didn't throw a pitch in anger before March 30. The seemingly innocuous scoreless inning that day against the Terriers with three strikeouts proved the lefty was ready to go. It was bigger still just four days later when Corey Williams took a ball off the kneecap versus Florida that required season-ending surgery while leaving the Commodores with just Richie Goodenow and freshman Sam Selman as the only other left-handed options for match-ups.

Rehabbing to be completely healthy proved to be a good thing, especially now in the post-season. In three post-season appearances including action today, G-Squared has been impressive allowing just three runs on 14 hits over 15.2 innings. The 1.72 ERA over that span, combined with 13 strikeouts have been huge.

The three-inning save today, Garvin's first as a Commodore, shows his versatility and is a glimpse that there may be even better things to come.

Video: Interview with Corey Williams

In an interview with VUcommodores.com, Vanderbilt pitcher Corey Williams recalls his inspiring play that resulted in a broken kneecap against Florida last Saturday, the results of his surgery, his overnight YouTube fame, and his motivation to return to the diamond.

Corey Williams Update

By Travis Young

I caught up with Corey Williams tonight before the opening pitch of the Belmont game at Hawkins Field to see how his surgery went. VUcommodores.com will have a video update sometime tomorrow of Corey arriving to Hawkins Field and getting greeted by his teammates and coaches since having surgery.

Also, be sure to check out ESPN's First Take tomorrow (Wed.) morning as Corey will be featured on the show. ESPN's First Take will air on ESPN2 from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. CT.

The video of Williams making an unbelievable play after breaking his kneecap on a line drive against Florida has been viewed over 280,000 times on YouTube since Sunday, April 4th.

In case you missed the play or x-ray of his kneecap click here

Williams' unbelievable play becomes viral

by Barca Blog (Photo by Jimmy Jones)

In the last 24 hours, the video highlight of Corey Williams' gutsy play against Florida has spread to national websites and blogs such as Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! Sports, Deadspin, FanHouse, Sporting News and more. Here's a collection of links on Williams' incredible effort after he suffered a broken kneecap from a line drive:

National Media
SI.com's Extra Mustard: Sports Video of the Day
Yahoo! Sports Blog: Williams is much tougher than you are
Deadspin: Vandy pitcher takes liner off knee
Sporting News: Pitcher gets nailed by line drive
FanHouse: Line drive destroys pitcher's knee
SportsByBrooks: Pitcher has nastiest splitter
Huffington Post: Knee shattered by Line drive
JockPost: Corey Williams still finishes play

News Stories
The City Paper: Pain doesn't prevent pitcher from making play
InsideVandy: Pitcher has surgery on split kneecap
The Palm Beach Post: Vandy pitcher splits kneecap

More Links
Rivals.com: Message board discussion
NBC Bay Area: Worst sports injury you will see all week
College Baseball Blog: Williams carted off field
VU Sportsline: Do not mess with Corey Williams
Anchor of Gold: Corey Williams
When It Strikes: Corey Williams = Man
Alligator Army: Gator baseball update
WEEI Sports Radio: 'Net results
Dugout Doctors: Pitcher breaks kneecap on comebacker
Southern Sports View: Williams takes line drive to kneecap
NowPublic: Vanderbilt pitcher breaks knee

Corey Williams Update

by SID

An update on Corey Williams. Above is the x-ray of his knee, and as you can see his kneecap is broken. After seeing that, it makes the play he made (video) that much more amazing. He will have surgery back at Vanderbilt early this week and is out for the year.

An unfortunate end to what was shaping up to be a great first year for the redshirt freshman from Huntsville, Ala. He had developed into one of the top hurlers out of the bullpen, making 12 relief appearances and was 1-0 with a 2.65 ERA. The southpaw had 17 strikeouts to just six walks in 17.0 innings and opponents were hitting just .215 against him.

Video: Injured Vanderbilt pitcher makes outstanding play

by SID

In Vanderbilt's 7-3 loss to Florida on Saturday, Commodore reliever Corey Williams was injured in the seventh inning on a line drive by Gator third baseman Austin Maddox right back up the middle that hit him in his right knee.

The sophomore southpaw from Huntsville, Ala., couldn’t move, but was able to get the ball and toss it/roll it towards first base, where Aaron Westlake picked it up and tagged Maddox out.

Williams remained down on the mound and had to be carted off the field with the leg injury. He was getting an x-ray taken at the end of the game and has a knee injury that will sideline him indefinitely.

(Click for injury update with x-ray)

Here is the play taken from the Sun Sports broadcast.